-Submitted photo

Ten Years Ago

June 29, 2011

The infrastructure’s in and the marketing continues. The Port of Columbia’s Blue Mountain Station project received another boost when it was awarded a Challenge Grant of $45,000 by Pacific Power for marketing the project. Port Commission Chairman Gene Warren accepted the check from Regional Community Manager Bill Clemens.

For the past few years, a senior from the Dayton High School soccer team has organized a soccer camp for children going into the first through eighth grade. This year Adam Strohbehn taught the camp.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 26, 1996

Deb Laughery, Class of 1937, will be the honored Alumni and ride on the Alumni float, representing all Alumni members of the Dayton High School. The Track Fund has met the requirements for the $5,000 donation from an anonymous donator, bring the total to $86,622.38, with gravel on site.

Local grads receive honors, Jeromy Jording and Amanda Hutchens, 1996 Dayton High School graduates, were presented with the United States Army Reserve National Scholar/Athlete Award, June 1.

When Tara Cunningham applied for a Page position with Senator Slade Gorton, she had no idea that it would lead to a trip to Japan through the Sony Student Project Abroad program.

Fifty Years Ago

July 1, 1971

Gary Gasaway, Columbia County Engineer, was appointed to a one-year term on the County Road Administrators’ board during the annual meeting of the Washington Association of County Commissioners.

Pvt. Jim Pruitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Pruitt, just completed basic training and a ten-week course at the second class diving school. He will be attending a deep sea salvage school.

Captain Edward E. Flanagan, a pilot, a member of the 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S.C., earned the U.S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 27, 1946

Dorothy Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hamilton, and an army nurse for the past 14 months, arrived home with her discharge. Miss H Hamilton wishes to thank all those made it possible for her to receive the home town paper during her stay in the service.

The Emergency Food collection committee ended its drive last week, and the estimate of food contributed by local organization and individuals for the starving people of Europe is more than 6,500 cans of fruits, vegetables, meats and a large quantity of canned milk for infants and very young children of the war-torn areas.

Dear Pink and Pat, I believe that at last I’ve stopped chasing around over the Pacific so I’ll send you my address. Jim Turner and I (Jim Hansen) would appreciate it greatly if you would shoot an Issue of the C-D out this way each weeks’ we’d kind of know what’s going on back home.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 21, 1921

There will be big picnic at Union Park six miles up the South Touchet, July 2 to 4th. There will be speaking in the forenoon of the Fourth and dancing and music every afternoon and evening. Everybody cordially invited to come, bring your bedding and camp out. Plenty of shade, and fine spring water.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 27, 1896

PLATFORM ADOPTED—Protective Tariff and the Gold Standard. Colors Under Which the Republican Party Will Sail to Victory Next November. “For the first time since the Civil War, the American people have witnessed the calamitous consequences of full and unrestricted democratic control of the government. It has made a record of unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster”.